Abilene Town

Abilene Town

Ablaze with guns and guts and glory!

NR 1946 · 89 min · ★ 5.4 · Western, Romance

Marshall Dan Mitchell, who is the law in Abilene, has the job of keeping peace between two groups. For a long time, the town had been divided, with the cattlemen and cowboys having one end of town to themselves, while townspeople occupied the other end. Mitchell liked it this way, it made things easier for him, and kept problems from arising between the two factions. However…

Directed by Edwin L. Marin · Written by Harold Shumate

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